ok talking with a couple tech buddies here in the north bay in select areas they are testing the power boost thing
ie windsor, petaluma and areas on the same back bone like
where i live in forestville according to them they have only seen it with people on the speed tier ie 8mb down service they also said in the rumor mill at work the powerboosting will become the actual speeds youll get always but only in select areas where the market deems it necessary like here in the north bay they are tring to squeeze out verizon and sbc/att dsl market to make people want to switch so i asked him what would my speed go to
..... he said well the reason why they are testing the power boosting item is to see what size file people are downloading and if you dont exceed their bandwidth cap that is set and the tech said he doesnt even know what it is then the bump in speed would be a constant 16/1 mb
he also stated that if your a bandwidth whore not only will it not bump up but you'll get your peepee slapped with one of those letters
i asked him to guess what he figured and he related to past service calls why the customer that called and he shows up at their house they had 400 gig downloaded in a months time for 3 months it exceeded 1200gig turned out in that particular case the guy owned a business and had only the 6mb homeowner flavor switch to the business class and no issues
so i guess to sum it all up it set markets here on the west coast the power boost thing will become permanent and other will be a boost thing
as for the bay area unofficially from him by 2007 speed tier client should expect 16/1 woohoo
also this is weird
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 7910 Kbps about 7.91 Mbps (tested with 20972 kB)
Download Speed is:: 966 kB/s
Tested From:: http://s1.testmy.net
Test Time:: 2006/07/16 - 11:34am
Bottom Line:: 138X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.06 sec
Tested from a 20972 kB file and took 21.719 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 50.18 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)
D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-T6IPUC3K2'>https://testmy.net/stats/id-T6IPUC3K2
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!]
not on the phone above
:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 62492 Kbps about 62.49 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 7628 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 757 Kbps about 0.76 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 92 kB/s
Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/07/16 - 11:37am
D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-QGNLJC6P5
U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-VK8H6TD9A
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!]
when i get on the phone
i have an arris touchstone telephony modem strange